Tyler Heffner

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How Dickinson changed modern poetry

  1. Dickinson only had 10 poems published when she died
  2. After she died, they found tons more poems in a crate and her fame continued
  3. She has some of the greatest poem's ever written in English
  4. In 1862 she wrote to a stranger
  5. She kept her poems in a bureau drawer, sewn into bundles
  6. She meant for her poem's to be an experience
  7. She had shared a couple of her poem's with her closest friend's
  8. She requested for Higginson to not "betray" her
  9. Her poetry reflects her loneliness
  10. Her poems are marked by the intimate recollection of inspirational moments which are decidedly life-giving
  11. Bowles was Dickinson secret love
  12. She lived and died in Amherst, Massachusetts
  13. She wrote 1,775 poems
  14. She suffered from an unnamed illness
  15. Emily Dickinson lived with her unmarried sister Lavinia
  16. There house was called the homestead
  17. Dickinson came to Higginson in the guise of an unpublished novice
  18. Her poetry is compounded of two elements
  19. Her work mostly remained unpublished
  20. Attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
  21. In the late 1860's she hardly left her room
  22. She didn't title her poems
  23. She didn't title because she didn't want to publish
  24. She wrote a lot about nature
  25. She used dashes in her poem to emphasize a pause
  26. She wrote in free verse
  27. Even though she lived during the civil war, she never wrote about any of it
  28. Her Irish immigrant servants said that they deserve to be recognized
  29. She was born December 10th, 1830
  30. They don't know when she started to write poem's
  31. She had eye trouble in the last 2 decades of her life
  32. Spent most of her life in her birthplace
  33. She had an unusual life
  34. Lived 50 miles from Boston
  35. Her sister Lavinia posted her work after she had died
  36. Only 5 poem's are dated prior 1858
  37. The first volume of her work was posted in 1890
  38. The last volume of her work was posted in 1955
  39. Her family discovered around 40 volumes of poems
  40. She was influenced by seventeenth century England poet's